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Gallery Notes Volume 15 Number 3

Gallery Notes Volume 15 Number 3 Page 1

RECENT
ACCESSIONS
OF
CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN
ART
From This Earth
Lamar Dodd
Although the majority of 1949 accessions
to the permanent collection were in the
fields of Medieval and Renaissance art,
several important additions were also
made in contemporary painting and sculpture during the past year. Beside the
purchase awards in the 1949 Rochester-
Finger Lakes Exhibition - "Neon City" by
Richard Hawver, "Abandoned Water Power"
by James D. Havens, "His Fish House" by
Lars Hoftrup and Robin Spry's "Seated
Girl" - the acquisition of four new oil
paintings by three outstanding American
artists is announced this month.
From the November exhibition of Lamar
Dodd's work at the Gallery, one of his
moving interpretations of Southern negro
life - "From This Earth", has been purchased. Painted in singing rhythmic lines and with equally singing color the canvas
shows a group of white-clad cotton pickers moving slowly across a field of reddish
southern earth. The strongly marked diagonal thrust of their bent bodies breaks in
dramatic fashion a, horizontal pattern of plowed fields, sparsely blossoming cotton
plants and a remote blue-green sky. Painted in 1945 before his growing interest in
abstract design had checked in any way a deeply felt emotional expressiveness, the
Gallery's new accession has been included in many important exhibitions of contemporary American art, including Pepsi Cola's "Paintings of the Year" in 1947. Lamar
Dodd, one of the most vigorous and eloquent personalities in modern American art,
is head of the department of art at The University of Georgia and has been largely
responsible for the lively new creative movement evident in the South these days.
Two strongly painted canvases by Whitney
Hoyt revealing a new richness of color and a
more vigorous painting technique were purchased in December. "Forbidden Playground" - a
dramatic picturing of children against an overwhelming setting of grim factories, slums and
an abstracted vista of New York's skyline -
presents its social message, very convincingly
through the subtlety of understatement. Both
it and the small briskly painted flower piece
"Souvenir de Claudius Pernet", were purchased
from Mr. Hoyt' s recent one-man exhibition in
New York, where they won well-deserved praise
from metropolitan art critics. These together with the Gallery's earlier acquired "Abandoned Railroad" reveal the surprising variety
and consistent growth of Whitney Hoyt' s work
during recent years.
Forbidden Playground Whitney Hoyt
HOURS: WEEKDAYS: 10 A. M. TO 5 P. M. SUNDAYS: 2:00 TO 5:30 P. M,
SUNDAY PROGRAMS: GALLERY TALKS OR DEMONSTRATIONS—3:30 FILMS—4:15 P. M.
THE GALLERY IS FREE AT ALL TIME

RECENT
ACCESSIONS
OF
CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN
ART
From This Earth
Lamar Dodd
Although the majority of 1949 accessions
to the permanent collection were in the
fields of Medieval and Renaissance art,
several important additions were also
made in contemporary painting and sculpture during the past year. Beside the
purchase awards in the 1949 Rochester-
Finger Lakes Exhibition - "Neon City" by
Richard Hawver, "Abandoned Water Power"
by James D. Havens, "His Fish House" by
Lars Hoftrup and Robin Spry's "Seated
Girl" - the acquisition of four new oil
paintings by three outstanding American
artists is announced this month.
From the November exhibition of Lamar
Dodd's work at the Gallery, one of his
moving interpretations of Southern negro
life - "From This Earth", has been purchased. Painted in singing rhythmic lines and with equally singing color the canvas
shows a group of white-clad cotton pickers moving slowly across a field of reddish
southern earth. The strongly marked diagonal thrust of their bent bodies breaks in
dramatic fashion a, horizontal pattern of plowed fields, sparsely blossoming cotton
plants and a remote blue-green sky. Painted in 1945 before his growing interest in
abstract design had checked in any way a deeply felt emotional expressiveness, the
Gallery's new accession has been included in many important exhibitions of contemporary American art, including Pepsi Cola's "Paintings of the Year" in 1947. Lamar
Dodd, one of the most vigorous and eloquent personalities in modern American art,
is head of the department of art at The University of Georgia and has been largely
responsible for the lively new creative movement evident in the South these days.
Two strongly painted canvases by Whitney
Hoyt revealing a new richness of color and a
more vigorous painting technique were purchased in December. "Forbidden Playground" - a
dramatic picturing of children against an overwhelming setting of grim factories, slums and
an abstracted vista of New York's skyline -
presents its social message, very convincingly
through the subtlety of understatement. Both
it and the small briskly painted flower piece
"Souvenir de Claudius Pernet", were purchased
from Mr. Hoyt' s recent one-man exhibition in
New York, where they won well-deserved praise
from metropolitan art critics. These together with the Gallery's earlier acquired "Abandoned Railroad" reveal the surprising variety
and consistent growth of Whitney Hoyt' s work
during recent years.
Forbidden Playground Whitney Hoyt
HOURS: WEEKDAYS: 10 A. M. TO 5 P. M. SUNDAYS: 2:00 TO 5:30 P. M,
SUNDAY PROGRAMS: GALLERY TALKS OR DEMONSTRATIONS—3:30 FILMS—4:15 P. M.
THE GALLERY IS FREE AT ALL TIME